What in ~/Library needs to be backed up?

bigwig · Nov 8, 2013

I assume most of it doesn't really need backup because they would be recreated on a reinstall. I'm most interesting in backup in user data. So far I have:

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maflynn · Nov 8, 2013

I would back it all up to be honest. If you're that constrained with space, then get a larger drive, storage is cheap

bigwig · Nov 8, 2013

My primary backup has plenty of space. My secondary backup (Dropbox) doesn't.

Weaselboy · Nov 8, 2013

bigwig said:
I assume most of it doesn't really need backup because they would be recreated on a reinstall. I'm most interesting in backup in user data. So far I have:

I would backup everything except Caches, which would be recreated. Just skimming through there, every folder has some sort of setting you would want to keep, or is just empty anyway so won't take much space.

Fishrrman · Nov 9, 2013

Question:
"What in ~/Library needs to be backed up?"

Answer:
Everything.

old-wiz · Nov 9, 2013

Fishrrman said:
Question:
"What in ~/Library needs to be backed up?"

Answer:
Everything.

Absolutely. What if you were told to backu x, y, and z and then 6 months later you found out you also needed v?

Gregg2 · Nov 10, 2013

old-wiz said:
Absolutely. What if you were told to backu x, y, and z and then 6 months later you found out you also needed v?

Not w?

Fingers crossed. I "back up" files that I create only. (copy Documents to a flash drive)

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